Similar to Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken,” Stuart Weitzman said he began his career in shoe design by going off the beaten path. “‘Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by,’” Weitzman quoted from Frost’s poem. “That’s made all the difference. That’s how he ended the poem….
Start@Shea, a student-led division of Boston College’s Edmund H. Shea Jr. Center for Entrepreneurship, launched its inaugural Solstice Conference this weekend.
“We want to offer the kind of trips where you take whiskey shots in the middle of the jungle with 3D printers workers,” said Bischoff.
The Shea Center for Entrepreneurship is planned as one of the cornerstones of the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, but the reason why isn’t necessarily obvious. Shea has had to fight back against a perception that it’s a center created only for Carroll School of Management students, according to Jere Doyle, executive director of the Shea Center and BC ’87.
“[It] was like crazy for me to fathom that this could happen to somebody at a moment’s notice,” Giovanniello said of his grandmother’s sudden stroke which prompted his interest in helping people through technology.
Three years after it was featured, Jebbit has grown out of its Faneuil Hall office and now hosts a growing team in a larger space on Newbury Street. Co-founder Tom Coburn reflects on the lessons learned along the way.
A group of MIT freshmen held the first BetterMIT Innovation Week with support from the administration and several on-campus organizations and centers. The event brought thought leaders and innovators together for conversations and workshops.
Stephanie Kaplan Lewis, co-founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of Her Campus, discusses the story of her company’s founding and gave BC students advice about how to start their own businesses.
“To the extent that it’s true that it is more blessed to give than it is to receive, it is equally true that it is more difficult to receive than it is to give,” Orcutt said.
Jennings believes his theology degree has helped him to run a $20 billion venture capital firm more than any business degree would have.
